Claris Nelson and Marshall Mason

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CLARIS by me

LIN KENNEDY and CLARIS NELSON in CLARIS’ The Rue Garden, 1962.

CLARIS’ Medea, 1962. Standing, DARYN KENT, ROB THIRKIELD. Seated, Unidentified.

RON WILLOUGHBY and Claris in Ibsen’s Little Eyolf, directed by Marshall, Actors Playhouse (which later became Circle Rep!), the first of two Northwestern Productions, 1964.

CLARIS NELSON and FRANK MANUELLA in her Neon in the Night, 1964.

CLARIS and MICHAEL WARREN POWELL on tour in the U.K. in LANFORD WILSON’s Home Free, directed by MARSHALL, 1967. On the same bill, CHARLES STANLEY played Lanford’s The Madness of Lady Bright. Charles took over the role at the Cino on the night NEIL FLANAGAN went to JOE CINO’s funeral. Marshall and Lanford were so impressed, they took Charles to England in the play. Photo by Frazer-Wood.

ROB THIRKIELD and Patricia Lindley in Marshall’s 1972 Circle Rep production of Claris’ A Road Where the Wolves Run. Photo: JAMES D. GOSSAGE.

1967: Someone wheedled LANFORD WILSON, MARSHALL, DAVID STARKWEATHER, me, and RON LINK (with JAYNE HARRIS) to dress up outrageously and camp all over the stage in CLARIS’ The Clown. (Guess how much wheedling it took). MICHAEL WARREN POWELL, creator of our dazzling outfits, was also on hand to provide some actual acting. TOM EYEN expropriated said outfits and dressed dozens of productions in them–until he invented nudity. Photos JAMES D. GOSSAGE.

1985: CLARIS directed by MARSHALL as The Hospice Worker in WILLIAM M. HOFFMAN’s As Is, a role she created at Circle Rep and played on Broadway as well.

Cino people VICTOR LIPARI, MICHAEL GRISWOLD, TOM LAWRENCE in Claris’ The Girl on the B.B.C., La Mama, 1965, directed by Marshall.

LANFORD WILSON shares newly-found images by JAMES D. GOSSAGE of MARSHALL in “The Clown.” (These reward enlarging.)

Carol Nelson, Unidentified, and Steve Nelson as ZITA LITVINAS, LANFORD WILSON, and MARSHALL in my “Angel, Honey, Baby, Darling, Dear,” a play I wrote to amuse Zita, Lanford, and Marshall on New Year’s Eve, 1964, when we were all SO broke and I thought the nicest (and only) gift I could give them was a fantasy of them rich and famous!

CLARIS in front of LANFORD WILSON, ME, and DORIC WILSON before the site of the Caffe Cino, 2008.